Characterizing Long-Range Correlations in DNA
Sequences from Wavelet Analysis
A. Arneodo, E. Bacry, P.V. Graves, J.F. Muzy
Physical Review Letters 74(16), 3293-3296 (1995)
Abstract
The fractal scaling properties of DNA sequences are analyzed
using the wavelet transform. Because the wavelet transform
microscope can be made blind to the "patchiness" of genome
sequences, we demonstrate and quantify the existence of
long-range correlations in genes containing introns and
noncoding regions. Moreover, the fluctuations in the patchy
landscapes of DNA walks are found to be homogeneous with
Gaussian statistics.
